In 2001, Vanderbilt's Mr. Whaley developed an index to exploit the high price of index options.
Yet temperature drops are all relative: It will be cooler, for instance, for residents of Louisville, Kentucky, but they can still expect a high of 99, and a heat index of 103, on Monday.
At the beginning of 2004, the real yield of the high yield index stood at 5.20%, only slightly higher than the May 2011 level of 4.78%.
That pushed the market-value component of the index to a two-year high of 855.6 (the actual peak was on Jan. 28 at 856.3).
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This year, an index of Asian high- yield corporate debt from J.
If we look back to 2000, the year of our first Mothers' Index, Rwanda had a very high rate of female representation in government.
From an all time high of 98.2 in June 2006, an index of business confidence fell to 91.8 in December.
The JPMorgan Domestic High Yield Index is an index composed of non-investment-grade corporate bonds.
The 24% cap means the most you can make on the note is 24%, regardless of how high the index goes.
The rise in the Consumer Price Index declined from a high of 6% in the first half of 1970 to about 2.7% in the first quarter of 1971.
That said, the Bank of American Merrill Lynch High-Grade Bond Master Index is up 3.75% through April 30 as a result of spread compression across the credit markets from the more lofty levels of the fourth quarter.
New screening methods could also enable CRSP to offer investors an index of stocks that rank high in both growth and value.
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Note too the fresh near-five-year high for the DAX index on the threshold of renewed recession and notwithstanding the weekend theatrics in Rome.
That eclipsed the index's record closing high of 1, 569.19 set Thursday.
There were 880 new lows on the high-tech Nasdaq index, while some of the biggest names in technology are now worth less than half their market value just a few months - or even days - ago.
Though it is still near the bottom of the UN's human-development index, it is ranked quite high for governance and freedom, coming 18th out of Africa's 53 countries.
The index hit an all time high in November of 2008, at 80.86.
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Consider that the double-B subset of the Barclays High-Yield Index, at 4.33% on Tuesday, is nearly a full percentage point lower than where it stood at the beginning of September and is down roughly 175 bps from levels a year ago.
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Carlson has delivered a 13% compound annual return since then, a percentage point better than the emerging market index and better than double what you would have earned from the collection of high-grade U.S. paper in the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund .
The average credit rating of a typical High Yield Corporate bond portfolio is higher than that of the Credit Suisse Leveraged Loan Index.
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On the first day of trading in the new year, America's high-tech Nasdaq Composite index fell 7.2% as investors worried about falling profits and the state of the economy.
Even the still-giddy Nasdaq index masks the hits a number of high-tech equities have taken.
Users of Flickr and Shutterfly index very high for having hefty annual household income.
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Just 18.7% of the issues within the high yield index are rated CCC, the most default-prone category.
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These choices should outperform the MSCI EAFE index of foreign stocks, historically as high as 5.56% annually.
At the end of May the smog index rose high enough to trigger extra restrictions on cars.
Still, the U.S. dollar index rallied to its session high in the wake of the FOMC meeting minutes.
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All that will weigh heavily on the bourse, and, current bargains aside, no one expects the blue-chip Hang Seng Index to recover its August record closing high of 16, 673 any time soon.
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